Stellar_Magic

Yeah...the night of the battle, it would take weeks before the full effects of the debris would surface.

On Yavin the debris was sucked in by the Gas Giant and didn't hit the moon. You should read Star Wars Technical Commentaries, it has a whole section called the Ewok Holocaust.

Technically the destruction of the second Death Star would have all but destroyed Endor's ecology from falling debris. Of course, who said all the ewoks had to be on endor.

OOC: The stunningly long post returns. "We've got a hullbreach, deck forty-two!" The ship engineer yelled in horror as a groan echoed through the Freedom of Thought. Commodore Athien felt her stomache twist with rage, "Seal it off, and get our fighters to block their attack runs, we've got to hold until they get the President out down there!" "Sir, we just picked six more contacts entering the system, telemetry indicates Kar Lur Class Cruisers, confirmed six Kar Lurs and a number of support ships," The Sensor officer cried out with frustration. Another salvo of turbolaser fire rocked the ship and Athien saw the console for the tactical officer explode. The man that had stood before it was thrown back onto the deck bleeding profusely from a dozen shrapnel wounds. A young chiss scrambled to the cooked control board as a medical team lifted the man from the deck, "Commodore, it's cooked, we're defenseless." "Reroute weapons control to the secondary bridge Ensign," Athien felt her heart grow cold as teh Kar LKurs roared toward the engagement, "All units, retreat, I repeat retreat. We cannot hold out any longer." "But sir, our ground forces..." "There's no time for them!" Athien snapped back as she felt her innards freeze, "I feel the loss but we stay here any longer and we die!" "Sir, we've got another ship entering the system, unknown configuration, they're hailing us!" The Sensor operator seemed to look agast, "I can't make heads or tails of its configuration." "On speaker," Athien ordered. "Jade Scimitar to Freedom of Thought please respond." Athien frowned at the transmission and then glanced to the sensor officer, "This is Commodore Athien of the Freedom of Thought, please identify yourself." "This is Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, are you moving to withdraw?" "Yes, we can't hold here with those Raporan reinforcements here, your niece is on the surface, we can't spare any of our craft to pick them up." Athien wipped her brow in frustration, "If you could pick our ground forces up, it would be much appreciated." "Will do, are you headed to Ord Mantell?" "Negative, definite negative, we can't carry on without repairs, we're heading for the GFFA base at Dresnak, we'll transmit the coordinates so they can rendevous with our fleet." Athien glanced to the navigator who keyed in the coordinates. "We'll see what we can do, after returning your troops we'll be heading back to Zonoma Sekot." "One more thing Skywalker," Athien glanced at her feet, "Thanks." * * * Jaina watched as two troopers slammed into a pair of doors. The doors failed to budge and the troops glanced at each other then drew their lightsabers. With a trio of slices the doors fell away and Jaina slipped inside. There a pair of Adumarian Security Guards stood, their blasters out with blastswords sheathed at their belts. The first one turned back to look through the smoke, "They're allies, get the president!" Jag ran paster her, his blaster out as the dull thud of Vagaari shot hitting the building echoed through the hall. He stopped as a pair of Adumarian Security officers rushed a man dressed in deep a blue uniformt through the smoke to them. Jag snapped a salute to the man, "President, lets go!" * * * Mara sighed as she watched the battle outside her viewport, "So any ideas on how to fire up the guns?" As she spoke a pair of small yokes appeared from the console in front of her and visor shapped targeting computer descended from above her, Smiling grimly she pulled it on and gripped yokes, "Wow, now this is flying." "What do you see?" Luke asked as he felt the ship obey his piloting controls. "Everything, it's giving me a composite of everything it sees, gravitic, heat, we've got a pair of enemy fighters moving to engage us." She stopped, now if I could only figure out how to...aha I got it!" With that a torpedo flashed from its launch tube and shot out into the oncoming Vagaari fighter. It flashed with a brilliant red glow as it detonated destroying its target and sending debris into the fighter's wingman's path. With a double flash of plasma fire the craft evaporated. Ben opened his mouth as he watched the display, "Wow." Luke frowned, "Are all the weapons controlled from you console?" "I don't think so, I saw the quads could be manually controlled." She frowned, "I can't divide my attention, Ben, get into the dorsal turret." * * * The Timeless One sat back in the throne of the Replicator Malliable World, his breathing heavy. Through the viewports he could still see the embers of the explosion that had destroyed his command ship. Reaching out to the force, he knew Endor had been cleansed, a system now that had no use, except perhaps one, "Navigator set course for Endor." * * * Jaina ducked back from the door out of the building as a Vagaari blaster bolt soared through it. As it's hiss echoed in her ears a chirp came from her belt, a chirp from her personal comlink. She glanced to Jag as she pulled it from her belt, "Jedi Solo here." "Jaina, its Luke, we need your location." Jaina frowned at the link, what was he doing here. "We're at the presidential palace, if you can't find us hom in on my commlink." Jaina answered as she twisted it to broadcast. Jag stepped up next to her with the President in tow, "So wheres our ride?" "On its way, Mister President, get under cover, those Vagaari are a bit trigger happy right now." * * * Luke maneuvered past a batter Paskla carrier and glanced up at his sensor display, "We've got a full squadron coming in, right behind us." "Not anymore," Mara hissed and a pair of torpedoes shot out from the rear launchers. Each one tracked down its target and smashed into it ripping apart the Vagaari Ark fighter's formation. Four of the fighters broke upward in an attempt to get clear of the Jade Scimitar's line of fire. Two of them met firery deaths from a salvo from the dorsal quads. Luke smiled, "Good shooting Ben." "We've got a bunch of fighters ahead, looks like two squadrons, one of them is Raporan." Mara winced, "We've got missile launches." Each of the Raporan Kar Asp fighters fired a pair of cluster missiles, their total ordanace, and Leuk felt his hands clench hard on the controls, through the force he could feel the Scimitar's hesitation. Then with a thrum the interceptor cannons went into action. They fired a steam of flechettes into the oncoming wave of missiles. Dozen's of warhead detonated under the shots, but not all of them. Through the force Luke formulated a plan and sent it to the ship. Suddenly above the missile's trajectory a enormous gravitic singularity appeared. The missiles were ripped from their path by its pull and hurled into deep space, far away from their target. Luke let out a breath of relief, not one of the missiles touched the ship or its shields. Then the fighters themselves wavered as four proton torpedoes hurtled toward them. As the four flashes from hits appeared through the viewport the fighters broke and ran, each one moving to a different vector, "They're scattering!" "They figured it out," Mara said pointedly, "If they stayed bunched up we could have killed the lot of them." She grimaced, "How long till we reach the atmosphere?" "Thirty seconds, why?" "We've got a Savla on our tail," Mara said clamly. Luke smiled, "Lets show them how fast we can go." * * * Captain Fredosh licked his reptilian lips impatiently as the black shape of the enemy craft grew in his sights, "There are Jedi onboard, all discretionaty power to the engines." "Sir, the target is accelerating, we're falling behind, it just reached three hundred MGLTs of acceleration sir." "What sort of craft is that thing?" Captain Fredosh hissed to himself. * * * The Jade Scimitar shot into the atmosphere its shields flickering under the strain of reentry, glancing at his displays Luke watched as a line of infantry appeared below them, firing repeatedly into their objective. Gritting his teeth Luke swung the craft around and glanced at Mara, "Let em know we're here!" A single torpedo shot from beneath the ship's nose and exploded as it impacted in the center of the formation of Vagaari infantry. If their formation had been more compact the blast could have killed hundreds instead dozens were killed from the blast and heat and perhaps hundreds more were injured. But the Vagaari did not fall back, or take cover remaining as staunch as they had been when Mara and Luke had first encountered them. Hissing between her teeth Mara opened fire with the quads as Luke maneuvered to land. * * * Jaina felt her mouth open in awe as the strangely beautiful black craft came to a hover before them. It's wuad lasers flashing across the valley of rubble to keep the Vagaari down as it touched the ground a ramp dropped down facing them, as both the dorsal and ventral quads opened up once again. Jag glanced at Jaina, "Thats our ride, lets go!" They ran, ran through the burning ruins and cratered smoke filled landscape to the craft and clattered aboard. The President was strapped into a chair as the last of the troops roared inside. Jaina and Jag kept going past the benches and clambered into the cockpit. Luke smiled as they entered, "Strap in, we're lifting off." "Um, Luke, is that what I think it is?" He turned and felt his eyes widen as a Savla class Cruiser roared into the valley dropping a string of mines behind it. "Oh shavit!" Mara hissed as the Jade Scimitar rotated in the air, "We've been targeted, by all the mines!" "Ben, shoot at the mines!" Luke yelled into the intercom as the area before him flashed a brilliant gold and the tower beside them disappeared in a giant explosion. The ship rocked and Jaina flet her eyes widen as she grabbed for the restraints, "What was that!" "Six Kar Lur Cruisers, they've gridded the area and are bombarding us from space...we're trapped." * * * The Sekotan fighter flashed into existance above Adumar along with Ulan's solar sailor. Anakin focused his attention onto the ships before him, "They've got Luke and Mara pinned down on the surface, Ulan, open up your sail and head directly away from the planet, I'll protect you. We need to distract them."

No, you're just good with Mandalorians. Lets see, Commodore Athien is about to abandon Adumar, the Timeless One is now on the Replicator Malliable World and the GFFA has begun to retreat to Ord Mantell. What's next? The siege and battle of Ord Mantell... Karyn's Rebirth as a Mandalorian Warrior / Jedi. Shren's return to the story. The destruction of Endor. (Thats no big deal except...no more ewoks ) The Jade Scimitar in combat.

Tell them what happened, and I'll probably have Athien being forced to withdraw in the next post, without the ground troops. The Star Hauler will follow your path and get pulled out of hyperspace by your gravity well projectors, what a bit of luck having them stuck on is . I'll have Luke and the family rescue Jaina and the ground forces along with the President of Adumar. Not only that you get to see the Jade Scimitar in combat . Any comments on Anakin destroying the Resurrector single handedly. (No the Timeless One didn't die, he teleported himself to the other Replicator just like Anakin Teleported himself around Tatooine.)

Jaina hissed between her clenched teeth as she looked through the electrobinoculars at an advancing formation of Vagaari warriors. Behind he platoon of Vagaari a trio of Droideka'kar sat in attack position with their weapons pointed toward the tower. She stopped and took a second look, the droids were missing the lightsaber mounts and the plasma cannons. Their armor looked worn and battered, the Rapora's crumbs given to their servants apparently. Jag scrambled up the rubble beside her, "How many?" "A platoon I'd say, forty maybe fifty," Jaina answered slowly, "We'll have to take them out to get to the building." "Alright, first fire team move to the left, second fire team circle around to the left, target those war droids first. Everyone else base of fire, this position." He glanced to everyone as they acknowledge his orders, "Hold your fire till we open up." As the soldiers began to move out Jaina starred at Jag, "I didn't know you knew much about mudslogging." Jag smiled, "The Chiss wanted me to learn all the branches of war, and you don't really have that training." "I wasn't complaining," Jaina answered as she watched the soldiers drop down into cover, everyone was in position. "Jag smiled grimly, "Lets do this!" He rose to a crouch and fired into the Vagaari as Jaian stood and ignited her lightsaber. A roar of blaster fire echoed in the tight confines of the cirty. * * * Commodore Athien felt the deck shudder as one of the Vagaari copies of the Savla shot past the brow. A volley of plasma bolts caught up after it and turned the craft into an exploding fireball as the Vagaari main fleet began to maneuver back toward them in an effort to engage them. Athien felt an icy fist close on her heart, "Any word from Admiral Hirotek?" "No sir, their jump vector is clear of any gravity wells, maybe their communications are damaged." Another officer glanced to Athien, "We detected a massive surge in neutrino emmissions from their hyperdrive when they jumped, they probably lost their hyperdrive." Athien felt her skin begin to grow clammy, "How far could they have gotten?" "Not far, maybe at most half a light year," The Sesnor operator shook his head, "Without a hyperdrive they're stuck." Athien nodded, "Order the Star Hauler Free Will and Life to try and find and escort them to the nearest friendly shipyard." "Yes sir," The communications officer answered swiftly. Commander Lores, the ship's Executive Officer stood behind Athien, "You do realize that the nearest shipyard is in our territory." "I know," Athien answered quietly, "I won't sacrifice him just to safeguard a secret the enemy may already know." * * * Jaina bounced the brilliant green blast from a Vagaari carbine back at its owner as the last of the strike team ran into the door of the tower beside her. Jag frammed himself in the doorway and opened up full auto on the advancing Vagaari squad all that remained of the Vagaari platoon. His shots went wide, but they drove the Vagaari to take cover all the same. Suddenly witha blurr a furred shape shot toward them, and Jag leapt back as a viscious four legged animal latched its jaws onto the blaster carbine. Jag fired and the animal slid off, its braid fried by the bolt. He cursed, "Wolvkils, the Vagaari's attack dogs." "So?" "They have a decentralized nervous system, you if it hadn't have bit onto the barrel I wouldn't have been able to kill it," Jag leapt back behind cover as a blast from a Vagaari carbine smashed into the wall beside him. He leaned back out and fire a single shot that scored the offending shooter in the helmet, knocking him back to the ground, but failing to kill him. Jaina's lightsaber whirred leaping from bolt to bolt with practiced ease, "Jag, what now?" "Fire team secure this doorway, squad lets go, come on Jaina, lets find this president." * * * Hirotek was getting tones of damage reports from all across his ship. There was little he could do to repair much of the damage. Still his techs were doing the best they could, trying to get the ship back to being able to make a hyperspace jump, trying to patch the battered hyperdrive. Lieutenat Carelor was one of those techies. He sat in the control room of the Gravity well generator with the control lines hanging over him. Slowly he lifted his comlink, "We've got damage to the gravity well control lines, looks like the Gravity well projectors have been jammed on." * * * Luke nodded solemnly, "Alright, we're going to test the hyperdrive." Mara winked at him as Artoo plotted a course to the world of Adumar, the most well known system along their path. "Roger that Jade Scimitar" Mara touched the hyperspace button and with a flash they vanished from above Zonoma Sekot. Minutes passed then as Artoos counter began to count down from ten seconds the stars suddenly reappeared. Along with the dark silhoutte of a Ravager class Star Destroyer. OOC: Great I'll have to add even more to my post. Anakin smiled as he saw the soalr sailor shoot from the Resurrector smiling he keyed his comm so that the Rapora could hear him, "Death, is all that you desirve Timeless One, but I tell you, leave this galaxy and perhaps I'll be more forgiving." "The only death that will be here is yours Skywalker," The harsh tones that answered left no doubt in Anakin's mind that it was the Timeless One's himself. Anakin shrugged, "So be it." He threw the skip forward into a diving attack ont he Resurrector, "Do not underestimate me." Closing his eyes Anakin let the force flow through him, highlighting the weak points of his target. Impulsively his mind one with the force Anakin fired, again and again as his ship flew beneath the shields. As the last of his shots faded into nothingness Anakin broke away from the Replicator, a slight golden glow flowing through the enormous vessel. Seconds later a chain of explosions rocked the ship. * * * The Timeless One knew what was happening as he felt the massive force powered reactors begin to sieze up, he was left with only one choice. pointing the entirety of his concentration into a meaningless point in space and the bridge of the one other replicator he blazed a connection and stepped through. * * * The Resurrector exploded with a brilliant flash as bright as a nova and several of the Raporan Cruisers closest to the vessel exploded in a secondary display of fireworks. Anaknin felt cold touch his hands and tears begin to well up at his eyes, "I warned you." Suddenly his comm crackled, "This is Ulan Shai, to the Sekotan Skip, who are you?" "I am the one, that came before the darkness, succummed and rose again renewed, a warrior for justice in the galaxy, and the one that will bring balance back to the force." He breathed quietly as he felt a familiar hand on his shoulder and sniffed, "I am Anakin Skywalker." The cold voice of his mentor touched his ears, "You did what you had to do." "Sekotan Skip, I'm sending you coordinates for Ord Mantell..." "No need Ulan, I'm heading to Adumar, there is someone I must talk to." There was a pause, "I'll go with you."

That he is...oh wait is it Wyren's Reserve? He must read alot of the X-wing Series. I don't have a schematic for the Savla class Rapora Cruiser yet, but this is the Raporan Kar Asp starfighter. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v436/StellarMagic01/KarAspFinished.jpg

Um...Shouldn't this be in outside interests.

Yep, SETI at home based at Aresebo. They got a wierd signal and are trying to confirm it. The thing is the signal is coming from a point in deep space with nothing around it for over ten light years. It's doppler shift is huge, the Scientists don't know what to make of it. Of course there's the possibility that someone hacked SETI at home's software. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996341 Then Nasa is planing on launching a Solar Sailor next year as a test. It's suppose to have a sail 700m in diameter, of course with photon pressure the size of the actual "Ship" has to be tiny.

OOC: I'll give Trej a chance to respond before posting over Bakura. Jaina felt the assault shuttle shudder as she grasped the hand hold overhead. All along the sides and middle of the shuttle troops with lightsabers hanging from their belts and charged blaster rifles did their final check of their equipment. Their armor was a stone grey with a pair of red bands across the shoulder pads and helmets. Their helmets themselves seemed to fit on their wearers head like a skull cap and an inch of plastic and cortosis reinforced steel completed the headgear. At the center of their shoulder pads and freont of their helmet was the symbol of the United Defense Alliance, a triangle with a cluster of stars within it wreathed by a crimson Imperial Crest. The pilot yelled across the intercom, "Thirty seconds!" Jaina felt a lump in her throat, a lump she knew would be there as it always did before she starred at death once again. Beside her Jag checked his blaster carbine and smiled, "We'll be fine, you should have heard how my brother did against these boys. The Vagaari aren't that good." "That is so reassuring," Jaina hissed back as she felt the craft's nose turn skyward. The cargo master nodded to her and Jaina let an edge into her voice, "Stand up!" The troopers stood their faces, Chiss, Human, Vagaari, or some other alien hardening into the look of professionals as the doors slid open. Jaina saw the doors begin to rise and yelled, "Go, go, go!" They reacted instantly, runing through the doors and dropping into a crouch, their blasters scanning their immediate area. Jaina dropped to one knee as she left the shuttle and looked up at the burning city around her, "Sargeant, which way!" The squad leader lifted his gloved hand as the shuttle lifted off, "There, about three hundred meters that way. See the tower!" "Yeah, alright snap it up! Lets go." Jag answered as he began to run forward in a crouch. * * * Commodore Athien smiled as the reports began to come in from the surface, "Are all troops on the ground now?" "Yes, teams alpha, beta, and delta landed off target my almost a kilometer but Jaina's team charlie is right where they're suppose to be." Outside the bridge viewports the three newly arrive Vagaari vessels broke formation shooting toward them with stuning speed, "They sure look like Savlas." "Thats because they are the Vagaari copy of the damn things, they're not as fast or as heavily armed as the original," The Sensor operator suggested. "Alright, lets not let them get any closer, plasma batteries, firing patter delta four, target the frontal ship," Athien smiled as four plasma bolts lanced out and slashed into the front Vagaari ship. The bolts detonated one after another, with the final two shots penetrating the shields and ripping through the ship's reactor compartment. It detonated in a brilliant flash. The two remaining attackers shot forward, their prows lighting up with the brilliant array of weapons fire from all their batteries. The shields of the Freedom of Though glowed and hissed from plasma hits and laser blasts but did not buckle. With another flash the two ships rolled as they passed the destroyer, and fourth enormous missiles rumbled out from the rear of each as they pulled away to begin another attack. Athien arched an eyebrow at the display, "They replaced the mine launcher with missile tubes, an interesting inovation, weapons make sure those missiles don't hit their mark." The flash of antistarfighter weaponary from the ship's wings lit up the dim bridge and seconds later was joined by eight explosions as the missiles were blasted out of existance. "The Vagaari warships are begining to pull back with the exception of these new things. I think they're trying to reform for another attack," The Sensor officer said slowly. "Alright, pull back our fighter screen and have the our units return to formation. Guns get rid of those two pests before..." "Sir, they cloaked." "Alright then, use gravitic sensors, if they stop moving I want them nailed." She sighed as she looked at the status of the forces under her command, "Hurry up down there Jaina." * * * High Commander Verice sighed as she picked up a datapad from her desk and typed in a search, she knew what she was looking for, a finding, a precedent, a way out of killing the woman that had helped Malice's threat. Seryk sighed as he leaned against wall, Karyn was being held until the Supreme Commander could decide what to do with her. He knew she had to find some sort of punishment, but what it could be, he was uncertain. Then Verice made a sound in her throat, "Seryk, do you believe Karyn would be willing to learn the ways of Mandalorian Warriors?" "If it would spare her death, she surely would." "Well there is a precedent, two hundred years ago a woman crashed on the surface after being hijacked by a team of pirates. They led her down here and killed several of our people." She sighed, "After we eliminated them she was given a choice, learn our ways and bury the victims of her associates or be killed." She glanced up at him, "Thats the best I can do." Seryk smiled grimly, "Let me see what she says."

Well, I've got another test game going now, finally added the Chiss Starfighter, and I actually started building the Ravager Class ISDs. Unfortunatley I haven't seen the AI building much of anything, I've got a ton of ships and I've only identified 9 Kar Lur Cruisers. On second thought it might have something to do with the fact I've spotted twenty Rapora mines, and their numbers keep growing. I haven't engaged the Rapora in a pitched battle yet, but a couple sectors keep swinging between us, and its only day 560. This will make one long TC I believe. On second thought, maybe my success could be that I haven't added the Raporan starfighters yet...

She'll show up again...eventually.

Considering what happened the last time you tried to kill a "Treasonous Fool"... well you'll have to work on that. Also, I'm putting her in the TC so you won't get the chance Darky.

Community service? Actually, why don't you have her bury the bodies of the daed Mandalorians.

Well, that would have been Bakura if Anakin hadn't shown up.

Bad Samaritan, I edited my post to include you, I almost forgot about Adumar.

OOC: Beware the wrath of Anakin Skywalker Trej, her eyes are blue cause she's a blue ghost. I'll give Trej a chance to run for it. IC: The Sekotan Skip slid out of hyperspace, its blue grey hull glinting in the reflected light of thousands of blasts above. Anakin looked up to see the great mass of a Raporan Replicator above his head. A storm of golden bolts flashed by his cockpit as a pair of Raporan Kar Asp fighter bombers dropped in behind him. Anakin sighed, he'd hoped the battle had not yet begun when he'd arrive, but it had. squinting he could see through the formation of Raporan ships to the massive broiling maelstrom of debris stripped from the moon. He closed his eyes and reached out to the force. Concentrating a plethora of black holes began to appear around the Imperial and GFFA vessels, like dovin basal shields, they destroyed the pieces of debris that were flung toward them. * * * Onboard the Resurrector the Timeless One felt his jaw clench in frustration as his attack was repelled. He furrowed his brow as he turned to the sensor operator, "Is there a Sekotan Skip int he sector?" "Yes my lord." "Kill it, I don't care how, just destroy it!" The Rapora formation broke up to chase a lone Sekotan fighter, a gap in their lines had formed, an avenue fo retreat. * * * Above Adumar the spherical shape of two Paskla class Vagaari Carriers flashed as a legion fo Vagaari craft shot from their launch tubes. Already the shots from Commodore Athien's Freedom of Thought were smashing into the craft's hull. One of the Carriers imploded with a tremendous flash of flame and fire. A trio of Vagaari Dreadnaughts could be seen attempting to redeploy to guard the remaining Carrier. A volley of plasma torpedoes hammered into the side of one of the craft ripping through its hull and spinning the dreadnaught toward Adumar. Hirotek's Forces were shifting to rip through the Vagaari's flank. His Ravager Class Star Destroyer wadded through the frenzied assault of a dozen Vagaari Dreadnaughts as it plowed it's spearpoint deeper into the enemy's lines. The Vagaari ship's were withering under the assault from the combined forces, but on the planet itself the battle was an easy victory for the Vagaari. Their troops sweapt through the cities, silencing resistance wherever it appeared. But as the battle going above them became more desperate, the reisstance on the ground was begining to stiffen and the Vagaari had become more and more bogged down. Onboard the Freedom of Thought Commodore Athien smiled, "Their flank is breaking!" Jag glanced up from his console as another sensor contact appeared, "We've got multiple contacts exiting hyperspace." "Class?" "They're not matching our database exactly, but their silhoutte is consistant with a Savla." Jag frowned, "Sensors are picking up Vagaari weaponary on those ships though." Athien smiled, "They must be a hybrid." Jaina spun on her seat and turned to her, "We've got a report from Adumar, the Presiden is under siege in his palace." She stood and pulled her headset off, "Request permission to take a team to assist in their evacuation." Athien nodded, "Go with her Jag."

I heard SETI got a possible signal abotu two months back, they're still trying to confirm it.

But the Empire didn't defeat the Seperatists...haven't you heard of the Rebellion? Well even in ANH the TIE fighter is suppose to be slightly faster then an X-wing. Ties have better maneuverability, and acceleration. Firepower, well thats up to debate, I think a Tie's rate of fire on its cannons is higher then the X-wing, but do they pack more punch? I don't know. I'll tell you a little secret, in the XWA series I always fly as a member of the Tie series if I'm doing multiplayer, because I love its maneuverability.

My favorite line from dilbert... Don't feed the EGOS! Thank you, cut, print, moving on...

Thank the force for Warlords

OMG I just took a whole GFFA fleet of 46 warships against a pair of Kar Lurs, a Rapora Mine, and a Vagaari Dreadnaught. I lost seven destroyers!!! Right now a RI Kar Lur costs about 128 Maintance points and a GFFA Defender Class costs about 22...still I think I'm going to have to make the Rapora weaker. I tried to get the AI to build tons of Raporan Mines...once I've got it tweaked so that they will...oh boy. Talk about Rapora War.

Yep, air, ground, and space, talk about a hard fight though.

Thanks Trej, um Darkie, Trej, sorry about really turning the tables on you over Bakura, but just so you know, Anakin just removed the reason the Timeless One wanted Endor. He'll send a replicator to destroy the planet in spite soon enough. (Goodbye any remaining Ewoks ). The next major breakout area for the Rapora will be Ord Mantell, if you guys can figure a way to hold it for a number of weeks (Remember Borleias in the NJO) you'll be able to give the GFFA and the Imperial Remnant a chance to really pull their forces together.